So what it comes down to is that Thomson, McCarron, and other iOS
developers are being threatened by Lodsys for using Apple
intellectual property under license from Apple, in such a fashion
that they cannot even settle without violating the iOS Developer
Program License Agreement. They can’t legally agree that
Apple’s In App Purchase API violates Lodsys’s patents, and no
matter what, there’s no way Apple would give permission for such
a settlement due to the chilling effect it would have on iOS
development in general.